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Four Color comic books issue 591

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    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 591

    Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's Western Marshall, No. 591." Painted cover art by Hank Hartman. Facts about the different methods of panning for gold. The Spanish Mine, art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; After resigning as marshal of River Bend, Dan Mitchell intends to get married and take up ranching; However, he is pressed into service as a marshal again when the marshal of Grubstake, a gold boomtown, is shot; Mitchell has to keep the peace between miners and "jumpers," who use a technicality in the claim law to take over any claim that hasn't been worked in a week; Complicating matters is Carson, who owns a lake that has water that miners need to process their gold, but refuses to sell them any of it. Sequel to "Western Marshal" in Four Color #534 (February 1954). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.